Alix Idrache
Alix Schoelcher Idrache is a Haiti-born military officer and helicopter pilot in the United States Army. Personal lifeIdrache's father Dieujuste dropped out of school at 14 years old to find work in Port-au-Prince.[1] Alix Schoelcher Idrache was born in Haiti,[2] devoted himself to schoolwork at his father's encouragement, and also saw the United States Armed Forces engaging in humanitarian missions there.[1] After Dieujuste emigrated to the United States, he was able to bring his son in 2009,[1] who later became a naturalized citizen. In May 2016, the US Army listed New Carrollton, Maryland as Idrache's hometown.[3] US Military.jpg) Idrache joined the Maryland Army National Guard in 2010[3]—later joking that they convinced him "because of a free t-shirt!" After completing Basic and Advanced Individual Training, Idrache successfully applied to the USMA with the assistance of his platoon leader and "the unit's full-time office administrator". Arriving in 2012, on 21 May 2016[1] he graduated from the West Point, New York school (the Maryland Guard's first, at the top his class in physics); a photo of a tearful Idrache went viral.[2] .jpg) By June 2019, Idrache's uniform bore the insignia of a first lieutenant and the Army's 1st Infantry Division. That month he was stationed in Carentan and liaising with French media on the occasion of the Normandy landings' 75th anniversary.[4] A captain assigned to the 228th Aviation Regiment by September 2021, Idrache joined Joint Task Force Haiti's response to the 2021 Haiti earthquake; the UH-60 Black Hawk pilot supported evacuation efforts as well as translating both French and Haitian Creole.[5] References
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